I explore what being gay means to the members of Gay Bombay and how they negotiate locality and globalization, their sense of identity as well as a feeling of community within its online/offline world.
High-Interactivity Radio: Using the Internet to Enhance Community Among Radio Listeners
Evidence of community among listeners to three radio programs, who gather online to discuss radio programming in blogs, message boards and discussion forums.
Street Media: Ambient Messages in an Urban Space
The ecology of street media includes a vibrant array of individual communications. Much of the media are unauthorized to appear where they do.
Toying With Obsolescence: Pixelvision Filmmakers and the Fisher Price PXL 2000 Camera
How has the obsolete Pixelvision video camera made the transition from analog to digital?
Homebrew and the Social Construction of Gaming: Community, Creativity, and Legal Context of Amateur Game Boy Advance Development
Challenging the common social construction of game development, which perceives the activity only within its commercial, corporate realm.
Understanding Meaningfulness in Video Games
Academics, journalists, and others who write about games often discuss the concept of meaning in video games yet seldom define it clearly.
Restating Artistic Value: Why Do People Pay 2,000,000 US.D. for a Urinal Signed by R. Mutt?
Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain” extends the question of attributing artistic value to reproduced objects, to artistic value attributed to reproduced art.
